Hey there! The good food exhibition is just around the corner, and it is an amazing opportunity to showcase your products and sell out to an audience of individuals, families, businesses, potential exporters and export markets, literally, a wide range of customers, and enterprise support organisations.

Better than a one time sell out are the systems we have built here at Quick Leap to ensure that you always have orders to fill in, from individuals, families, and businesses, weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly.

We also project you should be able to get orders for 2025, sounds really great, yes?

Now, we have put together a step-by-step guide to ensure you’re fully ready for this exciting event!!!!

A bit about the Good Food and Beverage Exhibition before we get to the step-by-step guide, the Good Food and Beverage Exhibition is Nigeria’s maiden virtual product exhibition, it is designed to showcase the work of our food system actors, and ensure they can get the right support and access to markets, it is also aimed at ensuring individuals, families, and food businesses have access to all the well graded, high quality nutritious food they need to live healthy and happy from infancy to adulthood, and businesses have all of their raw material needs met.

If you are a farmer, a trader, a food processor, or a Chef you should absolutely register free to exhibit at the Good Food and Beverage Exhibition holding on Tuesday, and wednesday the 17th and 18th of December 2024. .

How to exhibit:

1. Register free to exhibit here: https://www.quickleap.co/collaborator

2. Upload your products

3. Upload your bank details for payment

4. Get approved and receive a confirmation email

5. Exhibit to a wide audience of users, local users, exporters, & enterprise support organizations

Now to your step-by-step guide to succeed at the Good Food and Beverage Exhibition.

Step 1: Register for the exhibition by clicking on “Good Food Exhibition.” This step is very important as it secures you a spot and also lets us know you are ready.

Step 2: Upload your products. After you register, you are expected to upload your products, please use the following as a guide to enable you successfully upload products

• Use high-quality pictures or videos of your product
• Name accurately and include an accurate description of each product.
• Update the price if prices change, you can do this on the Uploaded products tab on your dashboard.

Step 3: Input your bank details. Please input your bank details correctly to ensure a smooth and hassle-free remittance of payments after the exhibition.

Step 4: Make your product stand out.Your presentation is key!

Using good lighting (natural or ring light) for your images/videos would make your product look more attractive.

You can always set up a tripod to get stable shots and make sure your background and environment are neat to keep the focus on your product.

With all of the above done, reliable internet is vital during the exhibition for live interactions, updates, and seamless communication with potential customers.

Now, if you are unable to proceed with step 2 successfully, don’t worry; we got you!!

Simply send us an email at contact-us@quickleap.co or hello@quickleap.co with pre-recorded videos or images of your product with information about your business and our team would handle the upload for you. We are here to make sure you have a stress free time before, during, and after the exhibition.

Also, if you are unable to execute step 4 please send us a pre-recorded video of your products and your presentation.

You should share your motivation for starting your business, and your drive for creating the amazing food products you created. As a farmer, share your passion for farming with the audience, food processors share the vision for their products, your vision should be about the people you are creating delightful products for.

Something great to note is this, post exhibition we have created systems that ensure you will continually have a steady stream of orders.

By following these steps, you’ll be well-prepared to showcase your products at the Good Food and Beverage Exhibition. This is your chance to impress buyers, build connections, and grow your business.

Got questions? Need assistance? Contact us at hello@quickleap.co or contact-us@quickleap.co

We had a webinar with our knowledge share partner Agrodemy Africa, you should watch it here, you will be happy you did!

Let’s make your exhibition a success together!

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The popularity of the food business is evident. The food business, like any other business, has its share of fun and challenges that both first-time and new food business entrepreneurs are likely to encounter on their way to success. From the farm to the table, there’s a space for everyone — farmers, processors, chefs, and restaurateurs.

Whether you are an entrepreneur or an established business and are in search of ways to expand, Collaborator has it all for you. Let’s explore why now is the perfect moment to embark on your food business journey.

With a growing population and rising spending budgets, demand for variety and high-quality food products is skyrocketing. Africa, in particular, possesses enormous, unexplored potential. Nigeria, the continent’s largest economy, has a vibrant market with a diversified palate and a growing middle class that is ready to try new culinary experiences.

Laying the Foundation for Success

Before you start your food business, thorough preparation is key. Here are some things you need to consider:

• Market Research: Understanding your target audience, their preferences, and competitors is essential. Identify a niche or gap in the market that your product or service can fill.
• Nutritional Content: Prioritize the nutritional value of your food products. Consumers are increasingly conscious of their health and wellness, especially as they have to pay more for food now, and offering wholesome options can set you apart.
• Market Identification: Determine your target market. Will you be serving households, restaurants, hotels, or export markets? Clearly defined markets will help you tailor your production and marketing efforts.

The Role of Collaborator

Quick Leap recognizes the challenges faced by food businesses, especially around essential parts of their businesses like sourcing and determining consistent raw material supplies and selling all their finished products.

So we built Collaborator for farmers. Collaborator offers a single point to access high-quality seeds and agricultural inputs and a single place to access quality markets. In essence, as a farmer, you can source and buy everything you need to create or produce good food and sell everything you produce on Collaborator. The same goes for food processors, chefs, and restaurants.

Food processors will enjoy a wide variety of well-graded raw materials to power their production. Collaborator ensures a consistent supply of raw materials, and yes, you can sell all you create on Collaborator.

Chefs and restaurants can access a wide range of fresh produce and ingredients on Collaborator, guaranteeing year-round availability and competitive pricing, and can sell all they create on Collaborator.

We have recently launched the feature that allows you to sell all you create on Collaborator, and we will shortly launch the marketplace where you can source and buy all you need to create great food.

Building a Sustainable Food Business

To thrive in the competitive food industry, focus on the following:

• Farmers: Select seeds that are high-yielding, resilient to climate change, and suitable for your local conditions.
• Food Processors: Establish strong and reliable relationships with farmers to secure a steady supply of raw materials. With Collaborator, you have this arranged. Invest in modern processing equipment to boost efficiency and product quality.
• Chefs and Restaurants: Source quality ingredients from trusted suppliers who prioritize freshness and sustainability, and for this, who better than your partner in success than Collaborator? Also, experiment with local flavors to create unique and authentic dishes.

By addressing these critical factors and leveraging the support of Collaborator by Quick Leap, you can build a successful and sustainable food business.

Quick Leap is committed to empowering food entrepreneurs by providing the necessary tools and resources to turn their passion into a profitable venture.

Would you like to explore specific business models within the food industry, such as food processing, restaurant startups, or food delivery services?

Go to Quick Leap to kickstart your journey to a profitable food business that promotes life.

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Hi there! This is Grow for Life, your one-stop shop for everything food.

At Grow for Life we believe good food should be beautiful to look at and it should bring all the nutrition you need. Our goal is to give you all the healthy foods you need to grow healthy, live happy and pursue all your dreams.

Imagine a place where you can find everything you need for your kitchen without going from one store to another. Grow for Life is your ultimate food, groceries, household products and recipes destination, where you can get all your favorite items in one convenient spot. No more running around town!

At Grow for Life, you can find a wide variety of foods, from fresh fruits and vegetables to delicious snacks, cooked meals, and special treats — all under one roof.

At Grow for Life, everyone has access to fresh and nutritious foods. Food has the power to bring people together and create happy memories. Our mission is to inspire everyone who loves food to enjoy absolute ease of buying food, explore new flavors and try new recipes. We’re here to make your cooking and eating experiences more enjoyable and accessible.

Why You Will Love Grow for Life.

• Free Subscription: Enjoy zero membership fee with a variety of free subscriptions that provides you absolute control, and ease.
• A Comprehensive Selection: You get to have access to all kinds of FRESH fruits, meats, tubers, veggies, groceries and more. Basically, everything you need for a healthy meal just at the tip of your fingers.
• Save Money on every purchase: You get to save up to 10% compared to other local markets and stores. You get more food for less money!
• Fun Cooking Ideas: We share yummy recipes and fun videos to help you cook. Whether you’re just starting or already a great cook, we have something for you.
• Enable Farmers: When you buy from us, you help farmers grow more food sustainably.
• Super Fresh: We harvest and pack your food and fruits just one day to delivery, so it always comes to you super fresh.
• Easy Shopping: You can shop online and get your food delivered right to your house.
• Healthy Choices: We have lots of organic and healthy foods to keep you feeling great.
• Join the Good Food Family: Be part of a community of people who love food. Share recipes, tips, and have fun exploring new foods.

Solving Your Biggest Challenges:

• Easy Delivery: We know you’re busy. With Grow for Life, you can get all your groceries delivered quickly to your doorstep.
• Safe and Fresh Food: We pack your food a day before delivery to make sure it’s fresh and safe to eat.
• Good Quality: We work with trusted farmers to bring you fresh and delicious fruits and veggies.
• Meal Planning Made Simple: Struggling to find time to cook? Our ready-to-cook meals and easy recipes help you make tasty meals without the stress.
• New Meal Ideas: Running out of ideas for what to cook? We have lots of recipes and videos to keep your cooking fun and exciting.
• Healthy Meals for Busy Days: We provide quick meal kits and recipe ideas to make your life easier.
• Healthy Food for your Family: We offer a variety of nutritious foods to support your family’s health.
• Sustainably Sourced Foods: Your fruits and other raw food items are harvested and sourced from farms and through our collaborators ensuring you always have fresh food directly delivered to your homes.

Join Grow for Life and become a part of a community that loves fresh, healthy, and tasty food. Ready to make food shopping fun and easy? Visit Grow for Life today and enjoy having all your food needs met in one place. Nourish your body, excite your taste buds, and make happy memories with your family.

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By Damion Udoh Chief Executive Quick Leap

If you missed the first story in the series on your Quick Leap is coming to you soon you can find that story here

On our last story we shared we would talk about the things to expect on Quick Leap on the next story.

But just before that lets talk some about the amazing people that will be working with us to deliver all the delightful food you would enjoy on Quick Leap.

We call them Collaborators.

On this article we want to do a dive into who they are and how we will be working with them to serve you and also let you know we can collaborate if you are one of our collaborators.

Okay let us start with who our collaborators are.

Who exactly are our collaborator?

Our collaborators at inception are the amazing farmers, traders, food processors, chefs, restaurants, and logistics partners we will be working with to deliver good food to you!

If you are one and you currently produce or have products in stock, do reach out and drop your details here we are happy to reach out to you for the pilot we will be running soon.

That will mean you are a farmer, and you own a farm, we will like to know what you are growing, or you are a trader, you trade food of any kind from grains to fresh produce, to processed food, lets connect, or you are a food processor who owns a processing plant, let us talk, or you are a Chef or you own and operate a restaurant, or you know someone that does we are happy to discuss, if you own assets for deliveries, a bike, a car, a truck, we will love to know, you are our collaborator in delivering good food to both our collaborators and our users, we have tailored for each and every collaborator exciting opportunities to grow your business hassle free.

How do we bring together our collaborators?

We bring all of our amazing collaborators together using a product we collaborator where we provide you our collaborator a wide range of solutions from procurement to sales, and financial services through trusted partners, we designed every part of the collaborator center with you in mind and for you to optimize the most stressful parts of your business so you can focus on creating good food and amazing products.

Recently we were on a collaborators farm where a lot of the amazing leafy vegetable you will be enjoying on Quick Leap would come from.

We will tell you more about how Quick Leap can help you as a collaborator win big when you join the waiting list, which you can here.

The experience promises to be smooth and transparent.

As we have had the opportunity to show some collaborators the collaborator center, we have had only positive feedback, we would like to show it to you and have you be one of the first to test out the product during both our Alpha and Beta tests.

For all our other users, we are putting together all of the food value chain together to ensure you have an amazing experience filled with ease and delight accessing all of the nutritious food you need to live happy and fulfil all of your dreams.

You can join the waitlist here!

Your Quickleap is coming to you soon!

On the next story in the series we will do a deep dive into the things to expect in and on Quickleap

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By Damion Udoh Chief Executive Quick Leap

If you missed our last story on Our Why? Which is to provide; Good food for everyone, everywhere, every time you can find the link to that story here

Errrmmm, that is the face of the guy writing the stories! loool

If you have been on any of our social platforms, well Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn you would have seen this banner!

We were intentional about having the “Good food for everyone, everywhere, every time! Boldly and clearly communicated!

In truth your Quick Leap is coming!
So, while Quick Leap is cooking, we would like to start sharing some of the good, good, delightful things we are cooking!

What is Quick Leap?

Quick Leap is an ecosystem of solutions. Errrmmm, that is big English… Lool

Quick Leap is a one stop shop for everything food, we are building a platform that will capture the food ecosystem and put it in the palm of your hands!

Sounds ambitious, yes?
Well, we are doing it so simply! And more importantly we are not doing this alone! We are doing this with amazing collaborators who delight in providing good food, and we are going to deliver all the amazing food they are creating to you!

What can you expect?
First, a one stop shop for everything food! A place where you can find everything food in one place.

If this is not yet super clear that is not intentional, now let's dig in.

Imagine a literal market, your regular Mile 12 market or Idumota market without any of the rowdiness, very organic, well curated, well delineated with ease of navigation across products that serve your peculiar needs withing the same ecosystem, and all the orders are fulfilled by our collaborators who are all the players in the food ecosystem, how cool is that?

Okay, lets speak simple English, Quick Leap provides you a food and beverage and eveything inbetween ecosystem where you can find a wide range and variety of good food, with the emphasis on good food for everyone, brought to you or administered through a suite of products designed, tailored, shaped, and sculptured for you in particular!

We know you, YES YOU! we do, we have been thinking about you, you are present in every standup meeting, at every sprint, at every team meeting, you are at the core of our governing idea, which is Good food for everyone, everywhere, everytime! That is, YOU!

And we have created a waiting list with you in mind, we want you to know when Quick Leap is live and to be one of the first people who would experience the delight we have been working on!

You can join the waitlist here!

Quickleap is here to provide Good food for you!

Your Quickleap is coming to you soon!

On the nextstory in the series we will do a deep dive into the things to expect in and on Quickleap

We love you!

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By Damion Udoh Chief Executive Quick Leap

In The Beginning!

Let’ throw it back a bit! The year is 2010, I was still in school @covenantuniversity

During one of the holidays, I was having a conversation with an uncle that lived among some rural farmers up north, we talked about food, the storage of it and making it available all year round, I added food production to my list of ideas in my idea journal, a place where I save ideas I receive, this is a key point I have marked in Quick Leap’ development journey.

Fast forward abit to the end of 2016, I had been thinking, and I got an idea to build a meeting point or a platform where people who wanted farm fresh produce could buy them directly from farmers.

Pause, back to earlier in 2016.

Earlier in 2016, I reconnected with AYODEJI ARIKAWE of Thrive Agric, we had not seen each other for about 3 years after graduating from school, @covenantuniversity we talked about everything that had been burning on our hearts.

We met again in 2017, we talked about food and the work he and Uka Eje had been doing in the space.

Uka and Ayo had started out connecting farmers to markets, and were at this time pivoting to solving problems in primary production as that affected what the harvests were and hence the profitability of the farmer.

They had developed relationships that were super useful in our build up phase.

The birth of Quick Leap.
Through 2017 our focus was building the relationships we needed for Quick Leap to as we knew it then to work seamlessly.

Gratefully in 2018, we got our first purchase order, we filled it with financing from amazing friends, and this is where the Quick Leap story begins to get interesting.

The first order, then the second, the third, the fourth, on and on it kept flowing in, we had exciting field trips and visits, we sought to build the operational end of things in every state we set out to operate in, Quick Leap was on its way, we had started building a fundamental component of the idea to be the platform where people of every kind could buy directly from the farmers — Our aggregation solution.

We were focused on solving the access to markets problems, what we didn’t know at the time was that the one was key to attaining the other.

The people are the markets the farmers need, the food processors we worked with are the markets the farmers need, in building out our access to markets solution we had started out building out the core of what we would need for where we are headed now as a team.

At the end of 2019, we estimate that we had helped about 3,000 farmers access markets, we had built a working system, relationships with farmers, truckers, food processors, and our friends that provided the funding.

These relationships and the experience working on the field sponsored our pivot, I’ll explain how.

Getting trucks at the time could be a chore, this was before truck hauling solutions like Kobo360 Inc., and the rest of the guys doing amazing things in that space grew really big.

There was a whole saga where we had a whole truck of Soyabeans go missing (stories that inspired some serious KYC processes in our build right now)

Holding all the parts together was stressful, coordinating multiple collection points across multiple states, and coordinating payments and logistics from the farms and collection points to the food processors who were our biggest and only clients was wearing the team out. We were also providing access to markets to a farming community that was plagued by insurgents see that story here

A pause to reimagine

Omo, wisdom directs oh, when I got back from this particular trip in December of 2019, I settled into learning, learning, learning, learning TRUTH (This is a whole story here)

In this time I picked up Ui Ux designing, after explaining severally to our dev guys what I was thinking in wireframes and the guys were like oga give us design.

Back track abit, how did we get to Ui Ux designs from using excel spread sheets for everything operations?

The Pivot.
Our system at the time worked, but was going to be very hard to scale, I have spoken to big brothers in the space, Ayodeji Balogun of Afex, my friends Uka and Ayo at Thrive, I had listened to Kola Masha of Babangona, and lots of other amazing people building sweet solutions in the food space at several events where they had spoken, either at events I had been at or previous event’s recorded and available on YouTube and other platforms.

On the trajectory we were on I was tired, the guys were getting the brunt of it also, we’d go from farming community to farming community, this farming communities are mostly sparsely populated and far apart for the most part depending on the particular state one was in, so you have lots of travel time in-between them, (at the time the way I knew how long we would travel was from hearing the fare, if it was N500, now that is a journey, very much unlike Abuja or Lagos) I was and am still a firm advocate for building solutions that hit every node necessary for it to work, in essence grass root implementation of ideas.

We came up with our most ambitious endeavor up until that time, a platform that would capture all of the food value chains in the palm of your hands, administered through diverse products tailored to solve the needs of a diversity of people. In other words we provide GOOD FOOD FOR EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE, EVERY TIME.

Why?

Good food is at the core of all human development from inception of life,
through every stage of development and growth, all the way to adulthood, and transition from this plain.

Good food is a daily requirement for any economy that will remain vibrant as
its human capital must remain strong and productive. Good food literally spells out LIFE, there is just something about good food that does not only fill your stomach but satisfies your soul.

Essentially without good food life expectancy is lower, and the quality of life
diminished. No good food, no good life, 7+ billion people globally need GOOD FOOD to live and thrive.

Good food unites people, think of all the memorable moments of your life, there was food in it, at every celebration, through every milestone, down to the everyday stuff, good food is a daily companion, an ever present friend you have really great conversations with a couple of times daily yes?

Back to the Build

We found we had the building blocks for a functional ecosystem of sweet solutions in the palm of our hands.

At first we called it the aggregated B2B market place, naturally coming from all we had been doing in the field, we had built our aggregation solution, we had built the relationship with truckers, our food processors, our finance friends.

So we thought take all of this online, food processors make orders, we fill on the back end, our truckers are notified and they pick up from and drop off at designated locations, payments is seamless, at the time the guys at Paystack, Flutterwave Monnifydev, and all the other amazing payment platforms were already killing it, sweet stuff man, we had it sorted out.

The scope had expanded from our very humble and necessary beginnings of aggregating to a functional one stop shop for everything food where all of the players in the space are captured and can transact giving and receiving value.

We learnt a lot off the field, our customers became targets to deliver delight to, our business was not just a static bland entity but a fluid vehicle designed to deliver absolute delight to our target the customer, thanks to my big brother, teacher, and mentor Dr Toluwanimi Osinowo. He had done this series on BusinessDay NG You can find the articles he wrote that did us so much good here

You will be happy you read through I promise (I always recommend going through this articles with a pencil and some sheets of paper or a notebook, take the time to re-imagine your solution and solving problems in general)

COVID happened
Errrrmmmm….. yes covid happened, boys were off the field, learning, designing, building, meetings on zoom here and there, Dev team meeting (we had to change the whole team, and rebuild the whole product… story for another day, we want to and will write about the lessons we’ve learnt building our product… we still dey learn am oh)

We had an amazing hire in 2021, and then some more amazing people joined the team, these people changed everything, the marriage between what is functional and beautiful at the same time is a wonder to behold, and I am excited that soon you’ll get to experience all of this wonder, the solution is simple, sleek, and it solves the problem amazingly! (Excuse the grammar please 😁)

In our next set of stories we’d talk about the individual products and how they serve you in detail as we walk towards the launch of the platform.

Abeg beg our Dev guys for me, lool, we almost there though.

Thanks for reading, see ya on the next story.

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The major roads passing through Rijana a not so distant neighboring farming community on the Abuja — Kaduna road has also been a hot spot that has been attacked severally.

There are tales of farmers being kidnapped on their farms, through it all their resilience knows no bounds, produce ranging from Soyabeans, maize, rice, groundnut, are still harvested in very interesting quantities.

We didn’t get to take any pictures inside of the farming communities for very obvious security reasons.

To put things in perspective, the roads from Maro to the farms are not motorable at all, none indigenes of the farming communities don’t go to the local market to buy from the farmers, and you wouldn’t blame them, why shouldn’t they be concerned? kidnappers usually demand for sums ranging N500,000 to N3,000,000 ($1,400 to almost $8,500 USD) and more in some cases , then there is the high cost of transportation that the smallholder farmer has to take on to get to a farmers market where better value can be paid for the produce, the cost of transporting the produce from the farms to the farmers market get as high as N1,500, that’s N500/ bag ($5.00 USD) on a bike to a location where the roads are good enough for a car/truck to come load the produce and have them transported to the farmers markets, some 25 kilometers’ away which costs N1,000/ bag.

So we devised a system that has locals/indigenes of this farming communities go to farms and homes of farmers aggregate the produce, (this way the risk of having field agents who aren’t indigenes being kidnapped is eliminated) the indigenous field agents bring all of the aggregated produce to the warehouse, this produce forms a part of what goes to meet the demand on Africa’s first and foremost aggregated B2B market place.

The farmers get good value for their produce, even in the midst of the insecurities more rural jobs are created as field agents have great incentive to reach more farmers in deeper interiors where the farmer would have had to pay a high cost of transporting to local markets, or sell a portion of their harvest at almost ridiculous prices to be able to fund the cost of transporting the rest of the produce out to local farmers markets.

It’s a patient process in Maro, the wireless network is almost none existent in some parts, field agents have to get to certain spots some distance away from home where there is good mobile network reception to place calls requesting a car to come pick up aggregated produce or give information on what has been aggregated.

We’ve built a tool called the Aggregator, it’s a basic system that allows for collecting data on the different produce categories available, the quantities available, the farmers, what size of land they farm on, what the yield is per/hectare and other relevant data that helps us provide access to markets for the farmers and the produce at scale for the demand.

Our experiment in Maro has informed a lot on the need for the aggregator tool to work both online and offline. Some of the major challenges we had foreseen in the development stage, some we are fast discovering and implementing on.

In providing the produce on Africa’s first and foremost aggregated B2B place, the aggregator tool and the aggregators on the field serve at the center of collecting actionable data that is traded on, and made visible to the world.

We hope to keep reaching more farmers, provide more detailed solutions, and help ensure a well fed and nourished world!

Quick Leap has built Africa’s first and foremost aggregated B2B market place providing access to markets for smallholder farmers and access to well graded quality produce at scale for food businesses, FMCG’s, processors, and other local, regional and global clients.

We are the first and foremost one stop trading hub for all of the value chains in the agricultural industry.

Do follow us on our social media handles to get the latest on how we are building the connection from farms to markets, from farm to fork, building new frontiers and breaking the barriers to a well fed and nourished world. Cheers!

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First off, when you sponsor trade in whatever value chain of your choice, you are practically “helping to enable trade”. What this really means is, you’re funding the process of making better markets available to smallholder farmers.

So this is how it plays out, at harvest, after all the hard work that goes into production, mostly smallholder farmers who are mostly sparsely populated and live in areas far from decent markets, don’t get to be rewarded with the best value for their production activities as several layers of middle men get involved, reducing the value that comes to the farmers and consequently the cost at which you purchase food in your various local food markets.

Value is added to the Produce when You Sponsor a Trade

When you Sponsor a trade, Quick Leap is able to get farmers’ produce to the best markets [processors, food businesses, elevators, etc.], where value is added to the produce and the farmers get better rewarded for their production activities, they get to have more control as to when they sell their produce.

The best guys on our team are working very hard to ensure that;

Remarkable value is generated and distributed throughout the whole process, jobs are created for the semi-literate young budding rural populace, who get meaningfully engaged, aggregating produce, farmers, data…etc.

More importantly farmers get great value from their production activities as they get good value for their produce.

And of course, you get great value — an interesting return on investment, the biggest being more farmers who would get access to markets (there will be a significant reduction in food waste, as more of the harvest will get to market; you’ll have more access to fresh or processed foods when you need it close by, as small, medium, and large scale food businesses and processors, can now get their raw materials in large quantities).

It’s a super profitable proposition on every front.

You get to earn good returns, while helping create value across several front.

We’ll be announcing a market access project soonest.

Do follow us on the various social media platforms to keep up. Cheers!

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First off, the farmers receive input gladly, clear their land,

and next.. Planting, happens, the whole process is monitored by the farmers and extension workers where available to ensure everything goes as expected, a lot of work goes in the process.

next off, after all the great work, its harvest time, time to bring in all of the hard work.

Quality control

The produce then gets warehoused responsibly to avoid post harvest losses.

The produce then gets responsibly warehoused to avoid post harvest losses and make them available to the supply all year round.

Then as shipments come we ship them off to the demand which could be institutional clients which are mostly processors, wholesale clients, and retail clients.

Our last mile delivery components help ensure that the produce gets to food businesses, processors i.e. the demand as at when due.

We are putting together proposed funding opportunities so you can fund the process of getting the produce from the farmers to the demand, you’d be helping farmers access markets and share in the profits from the whole process.

Markets are broken down into 3 categories; we did this to capture all of the segments of the demand that needs the small holder farmers produce, this helps us get better market access to the small holder farmers and the supply to the demand effectively and efficiently. So we have institutional clients which would be food businesses small and big, wholesale clients and sales points, and retail customer, we hope to bring to you a B2C (Business to customer) as soon as we can.

Great food then makes its way to your homes, where you enjoy a blend of fresh whole food, meat and also food that has had great value added to it, by remarkable people.

So there you have it. Food journeys…

The whole process is filled with hardworking, dedicated people who ensure food is grown the right way to ensure food security, then the quality checks, warehousing by our amazing field agents and warehouse manager, and our logistics partners to ensure zero hunger, then the markets and you who’ll be funding the process helping ensure small holder farmers access remarkable markets and get better rewarded from their production activities without all the middle men in between, and then you get to enjoy eating fresh and value added food, meat, and drinks, and also wear really nice clothes produced from harvest from the farms of smallholder and large scale farmers.

We’ll be making a lot of interesting announcements soonest.

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More seriously though, we’d like to show you how Quick leap can help your food business.

Reduce your overhead cost

Think of all the stress you’ve had to go through to get all of your raw materials for production, well we can take away all of that stress and the associated costs too, you wont have to deal with suppliers disappointing you, we help connect small holder farmers to markets and the demand to the produce, basically market linkage for you, and market access for the small holder farmer, we help enable trade.

Think of it his way, you have a well-organized company taking care of all of your raw material needs eliminating all of your overhead cost associated with sourcing raw materials.

We provide you tools to help you plan out your inventory and we’ll handle your raw material needs all year round.

The Quick leap inventory planner (QLIP) helps you plan out your raw materials needs all year round and we’ll supply all of it as at when due.

Traceability

Now you know where the food you serve was grown and how it was grown, or the raw materials you use were grown and how, there’s transparency from origination to delivery.

More steady prices

Prices change depending of demand and supply pulls, government policies, international politicking etc. Our solution ensures you can buy/order all you’ll need for the year and avoid excessively steep increases in prices and have the produce delivered to you when and where you choose of course based on when and how you place your orders.

Quality assurance

You’ll have the ability to choose from a variety of graded produce, sorted to fit your raw material needs by our professional field agents.

You’ll be supporting smallholder farmer’s access markets while saving cost on raw materials and making better margins.

You’ll be impacting directly at the grass root the economies of the communities where your raw materials are grown, directly impacting the farmers as they’ll earn more selling to you without the middle men.

You’ll also have your cost of raw materials at Quick leap farm gate prices, not from several levels of intermediaries or middlemen

Also think of this as a great corporate social responsibility opportunity.

Scale

A big concern for food businesses and FMCG’s is access to raw materials at scale, well we’ve got you, our aggregation solution pulls together the supply from several farmers, primarily smallholders and others to ensure you have the best graded raw materials at remarkable scale.

Warehousing

We provide warehousing for all of your raw material, if you have space constrains, or just want them as at when due, or at a later date, you can have them stored with us and be sure all through the tenure your raw materials will be responsibly handled and secure.

We currently already work with a number of food business, processors and FMCG’s who are having a great time sourcing raw materials directly from the farmers through our aggregated B2B market place. We are in talks with some potential clients to onboard them, and we’d be happy to have you come on board too!

Think of us as partners in your production process.

We look forward to having you place orders for all of your agricultural raw material needs on Africa’s first and foremost aggregated B2B market place providing Quality produce at scale for the demand and access to markets for farmers.

We’ll be posting updates on our progress so you can jump on the all the available stock as they are made available.

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